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Barbara Kay: How feminist Meghan Murphy fell victim to progressives’ double standards

  • October 24, 2019
If Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen were with us today, he might consider radical feminist Meghan Murphy, who holds dissident views on transgenderism, a fitting dramatic protagonist. For to any ob...
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Barbara Kay: Stop the conspiracy theories about Canadian Catholics in government

  • October 15, 2019
Pundits Michael Coren of Ontario and Richard Martineau of Quebec don’t normally coincide polemically. But they have lately converged on one issue.Both have elected to gin up fears that Andrew...
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Barbara Kay: If you can only love a pit bull, you’re not a dog lover

  • October 10, 2019
The Toronto Star reports that the Ford government is “considering all options,” including repeal, regarding Ontario’s 2005 Dog Owners’ Liability Act and breed specific legislation, ...
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Barbara Kay: Prince Harry needs to keep calm and carry on

  • October 1, 2019
In conversation with a student at a multi-faith reception during the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s 10-day South Africa tour, Prince Harry reportedly confessed to being so “overwhelmed&rd...
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Barbara Kay: Concordia’s Liberal Arts College finds it’s not immune to cancel culture

  • September 26, 2019
Liberal Arts College is a tiny college housed in an old greystone nestled within Montreal’s bustling downtown Concordia University campus. I’ve praised LAC in the past as an alternative...
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Barbara Kay: What are dogs for? To be waited upon by their humans, of course

  • September 10, 2019
It startled me to learn last week that Christie Blatchford’s beloved English bull terrier, Obie, had died at a ripe old age. Seems but a few years ago she informed readers of his acquisition ...
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Barbara Kay: Muffling a lawyer’s book that looked at the entitlements of Indigenous peoples

  • September 4, 2019
Last February the Sudbury, Ont., branch of Chapters abruptly cancelled an upcoming book-signing event. A clue to its decision may be found in the politically incorrect title of the book in question...
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160 years into Darwinism, there's one mystery we still can't explain

  • August 28, 2019
Back when the world was young, I was taught that four visionaries’ theories shaped modernity: Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein. Of them, only Einstein’s could b...
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Barbara Kay: Loneliness is a human catastrophe – and it’s getting worse

  • August 7, 2019
Heat waves kill. But selectively. If you’re relatively young, healthy and have access to a lake or air conditioning, heat is at worst an irritant. Immobile urban seniors living alone without ...
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Queen's Park memorial to the genocide of the Yezidi deserves your support

  • July 31, 2019
A sombre anniversary approaches. On Aug. 3, 2014, ISIL jihadists invaded the ancient city of Sinjar, the heartland of the Yezidi people. They forcibly converted, shot, beheaded or burned alive 10,000 ...
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Barbara Kay: Pot’s legal. But we may come to regret that

  • July 23, 2019
Some years ago, in conversation with his wife, a forensic psychiatrist specializing in mentally ill criminals, former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson observed that the perpetrator of a recent vi...
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Barbara Kay: My brother-in-law made people feel safe. What greater gift?

  • July 17, 2019
A curiosity of our culture is that the word “in-law” tends to trigger associations with people you’d rather not have in your life. Mothers-in-law come in for particular abuse, but the word ...
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Barbara Kay: Let’s have some truth about the situation in Gaza

  • July 9, 2019
In late June, the Globe and Mail published a front-page feature article by former Mideast bureau chief Mark MacKinnon concerning the depressed situation of Palestinians and Gazans under Israeli rul...
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Barbara Kay: Antifa needs to be called out for what it is — a movement of violent totalitarian thugs

  • July 2, 2019
The “entartistes” of the 1990s were a group of Quebec-based mischief-makers who threw cream pies in the faces of political and corporate elites. Amongst their victims: Jacques Parizeau,...
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Barbara Kay: When gender identity education and theory goes wrong

  • June 25, 2019
In his recent commentary in these pages on the risks associated with the teaching of gender theories to elementary schoolchildren, Jordan Peterson referenced a column I wrote in another publication...
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Barbara Kay: How a television show might help to bring peace to the Middle East

  • June 21, 2019
For riveting entertainment, Israeli dramas rule. Several of them deal with the paradoxical realities of life in a flourishing, prosperous society where Jews, both secular and ultra-Orthodox, co-exist ...
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Barbara Kay: Why Quebec’s immigration and secularism bills get it right

  • June 18, 2019
Quebec’s Bill 21 is finally law. Premier François Legault’s government invoked premature closure to end fierce debate over the weekend, and it passed 73-35, the Parti Québ&ea...
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Barbara Kay: ‘Genocide’ appropriation makes reconciliation harder

  • June 11, 2019
I won’t pretend to professional detachment in my reaction to the MMIWG report’s deployment of “genocide” to characterize disproportionate violent crimes suffered by Indigeno...
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Barbara Kay: Abortion should be about medical ethics, not Liberal politics

  • June 4, 2019
U.S. vice-president Mike Pence made a trade-mission call on Canada in late May, fully inclined to emphasize the ties binding our countries. Justin Trudeau repaid his courtesy with criticism of new,...
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Barbara Kay: I read The Siege of Tel Aviv, the novel they don’t want you to read

  • May 28, 2019
Pretty soon you’ll need some good summer reads. Do you like techno/action thrillers? I recommend The Siege of Tel Aviv (hereafter Siege), by former journalist Hesh Kestin, a darkly humorous a...
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